Ron: I let you loose on this thing. You disappointed me. Christina: CAN I SPEAK NOW? It's like punch! After punch! After punch! You really need to change. Ron: A 58 year old man it's not easy to change. Christina's crying. In last, the ministers see the bus. Can they runn in time to catch up with the other two teams? Umm, no.

Kynt finally makes it across the bog. Gramps falls flat on his ... whatevia. In the middle of the bog Goths leave, 5th now. Hendekea finishes vault in 6th. Goths screw up the cargo bike. Mud-covered Gramps strips down to his short-shorts!

TK/Rachel are biking somewhere. Phil: Kynt/Vyxsin, you are team #4. Gramps, wearing nothing but underwear, is landing over and over into the bog.

Phil: Az/Hend, you're team #5. TK/Rachel, team #6. Az: That's not bad. Nicolas: My grandfather made it across! Showing that frustration and anger pays off in the end. Christina will vault. She barely misses. Mariana made it across on 1st try. Nic is pedaling while Gramps rides.

Phil: Mariana/Julia, you're team #7. Nicolas/Donald, team #8. You're still in the race. But complaints from the locals, you got down to your underpants!

Ron: Position it in the center. Do you understand the principle of the thing? You're making mudpies here. Why would you want the edge? You'd have to be a monkey.

After she finishes, Karma puts Ron on his ass for saying Christina needs to lose weight. Phil: Ron/Chris, you're team #9. Christina: It's really hard. But we're getting through it. Ron: The key is communication skills. I've become the Archie Bunker of the Race.

Kate finally finishes vaulting. Pat: We realized we can have a lot of fun together. They kiss. They ride. Kids: Welcome to Holland. Phil: Kate/Pat, you're the last team to arrive. I'm sorry to tell you, you have been eliminated from the Race. Both: We wanted it to last longer. Kate: To show what we could o. Pat: We're meant to be together. We balance each other really well.

Christina was far nicer to her Dad than he had ANY right to expect. Oh my--what a piece of work.

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"I can't speak for production, but I really like that people see us when we're traveling around the world. If you're a fan of the show, ... you're going to be more excited because you want to see what happens."Phil Keoghan

I think some clarification of actual flights taken is in order. The first 6 teams plus Nicholas and Donald clearly got this alternative:

EI132 SNN DUB 0700 0745, connecting there to EI604 DUB AMS 0940 1215

Ronald and Christina and Kate and Pat were stranded in Dublin and the next flight wasn't until this:

EI606 DUB AMS 1110 1345

That means that Marianna and Julia had to take a later flight out of Shannon. Their best option if they could have reacted immediately and ticketed a 715am departure would have been:

FR1302 SNN DUB 0715 0800, then connecting to EI606 since EI604 was booked.

However, their 650am arrival didn't permit that and they actually got:

EI372 SNN LHR 0740 0915, then connecting to BD105 1040 1300. Note: When I looked this up a month ago, I found a BA flight at 0830 SNN to LHR, but now it has disappeared from sight.there is an even earlier flight from LHR to AMS departing at 1010 and arriving at 1225, but I do not believe that Marianna and Julia actually got it.